WK2 ASSGN RSCH RESEARCH SKILLS: JOURNALING Review the Janesick readings for this week. Consider the potential usefulness of journal writing for the personal and professional development of a qualitative researcher. For three consecutive days, write in a journal for 15 minutes (to be completed in one sitting). You may write by hand, or use a computer. Consider using Exercise 4.5: Reflective Journal Writing Practice on pages 96-97 for a suggestion of what you could write about for your journal periods. At the end of each 15-minute session, take a few moments to review what you have written, then take an additional 10 minutes to reflect on the journaling experience, writing down your reflections on what you have written and on the journaling experience in general. How can journaling help you develop as a researcher? The assignment: Craft a 3-page paper in which you do the following: Render an account and an analysis of your journal writing experience. Be sure to include considerations of how journal writing can help with the development of a qualitative researcher, or a researcher in general. Required Resources Course Text: Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among the Five Approaches Chapter 6, "Introducing and Focusing the Study" In this chapter, Creswell describes how a researcher at the beginning of the research process can identify an overarching research problem, purposes, and questions that can help guide the researcher towards the focus and approach that is most appropriate for his or her study. Course Text: Janesick, V. J. (2011). "Stretching" exercises for qualitative researchers (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Writing as Pedagogical and Research Practice: Introducing the Researcher Reflective Journal (pp. 155-164) In this section, Janesick discusses the importance and usefulness of journal writing for the qualitative researcher. She then describes techniques and exercises that researchers can use to improve their journal-writing skills. Exercise 5.7: Reflective Journal Writing Practice in Dialogue Form (pp. 165166) For this week's Application, you are asked to engage in journal writing for 3 days and then to reflect on and analyze your experience. The exercise on these pages can be used as a model of what to write about for each day's journal period. Course Text from RSCH 8100: Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches Review the qualitative portions of the following chapters: Chapter 5, "The Introduction" Chapter 6, "The Purpose Statement" Chapter 7, "Research Questions and Hypotheses"

WK2 ASSGN RSCH RESEARCH SKILLS: JOURNALING Review the Janesick readings for this week. Consider the potential usefulness of journal writing for the personal and professional development of a qualitative researcher. For three consecutive days, write in a journal for 15 minutes (to be completed in one sitting). You may write by hand, or use a computer. Consider using Exercise 4.5: Reflective Journal Writing Practice on pages 96-97 for a suggestion of what you could write about for your journal periods. At the end of each 15-minute session, take a few moments to review what you have written, then take an additional 10 minutes to reflect on the journaling experience, writing down your reflections on what you have written and on the journaling experience in general. How can journaling help you develop as a researcher? The assignment: Craft a 3-page paper in which you do the following: Render an account and an analysis of your journal writing experience. Be sure to include considerations of how journal writing can help with the development of a qualitative researcher, or a researcher in general. Required Resources Course Text: Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among the Five Approaches Chapter 6, "Introducing and Focusing the Study" In this chapter, Creswell describes how a researcher at the beginning of the research process can identify an overarching research problem, purposes, and questions that can help guide the researcher towards the focus and approach that is most appropriate for his or her study. Course Text: Janesick, V. J. (2011). "Stretching" exercises for qualitative researchers (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Writing as Pedagogical and Research Practice: Introducing the Researcher Reflective Journal (pp. 155-164) In this section, Janesick discusses the importance and usefulness of journal writing for the qualitative researcher. She then describes techniques and exercises that researchers can use to improve their journal-writing skills. Exercise 5.7: Reflective Journal Writing Practice in Dialogue Form (pp. 165166) For this week's Application, you are asked to engage in journal writing for 3 days and then to reflect on and analyze your experience. The exercise on these pages can be used as a model of what to write about for each day's journal period. Course Text from RSCH 8100: Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches Review the qualitative portions of the following chapters: Chapter 5, "The Introduction" Chapter 6, "The Purpose Statement" Chapter 7, "Research Questions and Hypotheses"